Psalms 42:8

Yet the Lord. — Better, By day Jehovah shall command (or, literally, Jehovah command) his grace.

And in the night his song — i.e., a song to Him; but the emendation shîrah, “song,” for shîrôh, “his song,” commends itself. The parallelism of this verse seems to confirm the conclusion drawn from the sentence at end of Book II., that the title “prayer,” and “song” were used indiscriminately for any of the hymns in religious use.